The Small Book of Hip Checks
On Queer Gender, Race, and Writing
1st Edition
Published on 23. November 2020
160 pages
978-1-4780-1307-5 (ISBN)
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Erica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip check-an athlete using their hip to throw an opponent off balance and the inspection of racialized gender-to consider the workings of queer gender, race, and writing.
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Erica Rand is Professor of Art and Visual Culture and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College and author of Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure on and off the Ice, The Ellis Island Snow Globe, and Barbie's Queer Accessories, all also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Hip Check. An Introduction in Four Parts 1
1. If Men Don't Have Hips, How Can They Hip-Check?
2. Showing and Telling: Debi Thomas's Unitard and the Racing of the Obscence
3. Deep into Drivel: A Burger King Pride Stunt, Mundane Racism, and the Rainbow
4. TV Evidence for the Transgender Tipping Point
5. A Lothario in Gendered Jeans
6. Hide and Seek: In the Afterlives of the Dorothy Hamill Haircut
7. Consensual Gender
8. Clocking the Natural
9. Gifts and Givens
10. Page 27 of The Godfather and the Evidence of Memory
11. Queer Indirections
12. Clocking the Unnatural: On the History of the Lavender Dildo
13. Cis-Skeletal
14. It's on the Template
Conclusion. Hip-Checked
Afterword. Hip-Check Your Writing-An Exercise
Notes
Index
Hip Check. An Introduction in Four Parts 1
1. If Men Don't Have Hips, How Can They Hip-Check?
2. Showing and Telling: Debi Thomas's Unitard and the Racing of the Obscence
3. Deep into Drivel: A Burger King Pride Stunt, Mundane Racism, and the Rainbow
4. TV Evidence for the Transgender Tipping Point
5. A Lothario in Gendered Jeans
6. Hide and Seek: In the Afterlives of the Dorothy Hamill Haircut
7. Consensual Gender
8. Clocking the Natural
9. Gifts and Givens
10. Page 27 of The Godfather and the Evidence of Memory
11. Queer Indirections
12. Clocking the Unnatural: On the History of the Lavender Dildo
13. Cis-Skeletal
14. It's on the Template
Conclusion. Hip-Checked
Afterword. Hip-Check Your Writing-An Exercise
Notes
Index
